Dorothy Day Quotes

Dorothy Day (26)

Birth:	8th November, 1897
Death:	29th November, 1980
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Founder, Journalist

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• The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?

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• Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.

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• When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us.

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• We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from their goal in the pursuit of their mission.

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• We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

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• We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world.

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• Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.

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• They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.

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• The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

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• Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

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• It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us – to see Christ in him.

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• I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.

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• First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy.

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• Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.

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• We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately and the ultimate owning by the workers of their means of production.

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• Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.

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• Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

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• Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.

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• Don’t call me a saint. I don’t want to be dismissed so easily.

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• Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life.

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